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I was discussing with a friend how I believe that despite water obviously beating fire, most kids I knew chose Pokemon Red, probably just because Charizard looked cooler than Blastoise. 

But I wanted to know for sure that this really was the trend in sales in the United States. According to this unsourced chart sourced by Wikipedia however, Blue outsold Red in the U.S. by quite a bit, boasting 5.02 million copies sold versus Red's 4.83 million.  http://www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-USPlatinum.shtml

But again, that chart doesn't say where it got its numbers from, so I don't feel satisfied with its projections unless someone can point me in the direction of a reliable source that says where it got its numbers from. I already searched the website's forums for Pokemon related threads and came up empty. 

This sales distribution is proving a lot harder to figure out than I thought, due to the tendency of every official source I've read to lump the two games together as one. I mean yeah, they're basically the same thing aside from the boxing and a few of the Pokemon being version-exclusive, but I figured some reputable source would still have tracked the sales of these versions separately. I still think at least one probably did, but I obviously haven't been able to find it.

If you happen to know which version sold better and can provide a good source for that information, please let me know. This is already driving my nuts. 

These two images were on the first page of my Google search for "physical representation of frustration with lack of available sales figures for pokemon red and blue driving my nuts"

Gonna say the keyboard kid is Red and Lady Gaga is Blue for obvious reasons

If you can't find a link to a good source comparing the sales of Red to Blue, let me know which you think actually sold more copies, which was your favorite, and why, if you feel so inclined. 

And do you like Lady Gaga or Keyboard Kid better? Knowing this site, I'm guessing Keyboard Kid. Personally, I might actually like their offspring the best. We'll say that's the Green option. Yellow is that offspring's cousin, I guess. 

Left: first "green" result I found for Google search "keyboard kid and Lady Gaga offspring"

Center: first "yellow" result found for Google search "keyboard kid and Lady Gaga's offspring's cousin" 

 

Oh yeah, I have had several of my articles go up on http://plus10damage.com  recently. I kind of went on a writing rampage after slacking off during summer, so quite a few articles on the front page were authored by Joe Step (me). Check them out, like them and comment on them if you would. Please? Please? Pleeeeeeeaaaaase?